Bakassi or the politics of exclusion and occupation? / Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kini-Yen Kinni, Fongot.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)--Politics and government.

Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is a complex volume that combines a good deal of survey data on Bakassi and its populations with more ethnographically based insights into the conditions of the Bakassi communities. The book is the outcome of research carried out by Fongot Kini between 2004 and 2009. The work is intended to serve as first hand exhaustive information on the live situation in the contested Bakassi Cameroon-Nigeria border region. The term Bakassi engenders multiple meanings loaded with many conflicting emotional, spiritual and material interests. Native inhabitants are systematically disinherited of their ancestral cultural heritage and socio-economic resources. They are bastardised, humiliated and scammed by unscrupulous opportunists who deliberately misidentify them with intentions of dispossessing them of their ancestral lands and natural resources. Overall the author is in sympathy with the Bakassi who he argues have been marginalised and neglected by the Cameroon state. In particular, the value of the indigenous communities in terms of local economies as well as securing this vital border area has not been recognised and various external groups have been either allowed or encouraged to settle there to both the detriment of local populations and to the security of the region.

Contents:

Foreword

About the author

Acknowledgement

Abbreviations

Backgrounding Bakassi post-conflict confidence-building and peace-building strategies

The Bakassi geo-strategic space

Colonial impact on the Bakassi Region

Bakassi colonial agent based system conflicts

The Bakassi identity problem : who is Bakassian and who is not?

Demographic and socio-economic overview including peoples and languages of Bakassi and social interaction

Maritime traffic and road network and trade in the Ndian Mainland and the Bakassi Peninsula

Corporate social responsibility and peace-building process in the Bakassi Peninsula

Water and sanitation, health facilities, education, social infrastructure and services

Socio-economic profile of the Bakassi Region

Negotiating contiguities in the agent based directed system in the Bakassi post-conflict political economic space

Bakassi confidence-building and peace-building action plan for the rehabilitation of Bakassi

Special events of the Bakassi Peninsula and correlated dates

Bibliography

Judgment

Agreement between the Republic Of Cameroon and the Federal Republic of Nigeria Concerning the Modalities of Withdrawal in the Bakassi Peninsula

Annex I.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-411).

ISBN:

9789956790319

9956790311

9789956790302

9956790303

OCLC:

853361163